Christpher
Christpher was last recorded in 2009, when 6 babies were given it; 1,304 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Christpher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 38 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christpher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christpher?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,245, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
71 babies in 1986, the peak
Christpher peaked in 1986, when 71 boys were given it, #1,120 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #11,245 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,365 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,593 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,331 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,610 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,648 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,075 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,112 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,952 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,508 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 11 | #5,237 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,182 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,615 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,948 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,015 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 25 | #2,688 | 12.4 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,706 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 61 | #1,393 | 30.5 |
| 1988 | 47 | #1,553 | 24.6 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,161 | 36.4 |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,120 | 38.6 |
| 1985 | 70 | #1,111 | 37.9 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,189 | 32.7 |
| 1983 | 47 | #1,363 | 26.2 |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,230 | 31.4 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,636 | 20.1 |
| 1980 | 40 | #1,525 | 22.4 |
| 1979 | 41 | #1,467 | 23.8 |
| 1978 | 38 | #1,509 | 23.1 |
| 1977 | 35 | #1,576 | 21.3 |
| 1976 | 43 | #1,355 | 27.4 |
| 1975 | 35 | #1,509 | 22.4 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,252 | 28.6 |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,257 | 27.6 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,732 | 16.0 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,603 | 17.0 |
| 1970 | 28 | #1,623 | 15.1 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,813 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,849 | 10.9 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,157 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,148 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,196 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,324 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,217 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,878 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,138 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,335 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,668 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,080 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,966 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,483 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,404 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Christpher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christpher has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christpher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christpher, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,304 Americans ever recorded as Christpher. The median Christpher alive today is 43 years old; half are between 38 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,243 people named Christpher (3 women and girls, 2,240 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 63 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 434 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 614 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 81 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,086,908 babies since 1880, Christpher is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,770 babies recorded by SSA was a Christpher (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher | 2,079,103 | 4,748 | 1984 |
| Christofer | 3,856 | 22 | 2007 |
| Christpher | 1,304 | under 5 | 1986 |
| Christapher | 701 | under 5 | 1990 |
| Christipher | 620 | under 5 | 1987 |
| Christophor | 537 | under 5 | 1971 |
| Christophr | 404 | under 5 | 1972 |
| Chrystopher | 383 | under 5 | 1995 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Christpher
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Christoher | 1,094 | |
| Chirstopher | 1,051 | |
| Micahel | 1,412 | |
| Dustan | 1,695 | |
| Christoper | 3,161 | |
| Chistopher | 1,446 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Christpher and names like it
- Compare Christpher and ChristopherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChristpher peaked in 1986.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christpher since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Christpher.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Christpher alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.